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FootieCentral.com (“FootieCentral”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use and share information about you. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding this information and how we will treat it. By using www.footiecentral.com (the “Service”), you expressly consent to the practices and activities described in this Privacy Policy.
Information collection
We may collect and process the following information and associate it with you (“Personal Information”):
• Information that you provide to us when registering to use the Service or when maintaining your profile details including name, email address, date of birth, gender;
• Any information you have given Facebook, Twitter or other social networks (the “Social Networks”) permission to share with us when you connect them to the Service. This can include information such as name, gender, profile pictures, user ID, user name, likes, details of friends, followers or contacts, and networks that you are a member of;
• Any data you upload to the Service including any posts, reviews, comments; “shares” or any information you have instructed us to fetch from other websites or services;
• Details of your activities on the Service including your participation, progress, actions, and achievements in the quiz, content that you create (such as posts you make), pages and items you view, how you browse the Service, your communication with other users of the Service;
• Records of our correspondence with you. We may also ask you for additional information when you report a problem with the Service;
• Surveys that we ask you to take part in for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them; and
• Details of your use of the Service including location data, log data, and other information that your computer or mobile device (such as a smartphone) sends to us when you connect it to the Service.
The Personal Information we collect will be kept by us for as long as your account with us remains active. If you deactivate your account your Personal Information will be kept for a reasonable period of time after this so that we can complete any activities it is being used for. Following this period we will either delete the information or change it to a form that does not identify you.
Cookies
When you use the Service, we may place cookies on the device that you connect to the Service.
Uses made of the information
We may use your Personal Information in any of the following ways to:
• Provide the Service to you and ensure that content on the Service is presented in the most effective and relevant manner for you;
• Allow you to participate in, and interact with, features of the Service when you choose to do so;
• Provide you with information that you request from us;
• Provide you with information about products or services that we believe will interest you;
• Update our records and generally maintain your account with us;
• Notify you about changes to the Service;
• Analyse how the Service is used; and
• Diagnose technical problems with and/or maintain security of the Service.
Disclosure of your information
Other Users of the Service The following information will be made publicly available to other users of the Service: your name; comments you post; and your actions, progress and achievements in the game.
For Legal Reasons
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
• If FootieCentral or a substantial part of its assets is acquired by a third party, information held by it about its users could be one of the transferred assets; and
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply the Terms of Use and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of FootieCentral, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of detecting and preventing crime.
Ads on the service and third party advertising networks
We may allow third parties to serve advertisements on the Service and on third-party services and use other third parties to help us collect and analyze information about your use of the service, generate aggregate site usage statistics and provide content sharing services to support the Service. These third parties may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect similar non-personal information about your use of the Service. We do not control the third parties’ use of such technologies and their use is governed by those parties’ privacy policies. You can find out more about this type of advertising from http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on FootieCentral. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. FootieCentral does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks us to show an advertisement to a certain audience and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The FootieCentral Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such advertisers for more information.
Information that can’t identify you
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to anyone outside of FootieCentral except as set out above. We may provide third parties with aggregate statistical information and analytics about our users and non-registered visitors’ habits and use of the Service but will we make sure no one can be identified from this information before we disclose it.
Third parties
The Service may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites of our partner networks, advertisers, partner merchants, retailers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any Personal Information to those websites.
Keeping your information safe
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Service, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we use reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Service; any transmission is at your own risk.
Access to your information
Most of the Personal Information that we hold about you is either available directly from viewing your account and looking back over your own activities, or is available from the Social Networks that you have connected to the Service. Please provide as much information as you can about the information you are looking for and we will be happy to try and help you find it.
Notices to you
If we need to provide you with information about something, whether for legal, marketing or other business related purposes, we will select what we believe is the best way to get in contact with you. We will usually do this through email, or by placing a notice on the website. The fact that we may send notices to you will not stop you from being able to opt out of certain types of contact as described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to our privacy policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this policy periodically. When we change the policy in a material way, we will update the “last modified” date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Our policy towards children
The Service is not directed to persons under 13 and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, without your consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcome and should be addressed to editor@footiecentral.com